Correspondence book



Dec. 26, 1933. L. F. URBAIN CORRESPONDENCE BOOK Filed July 20, 1931 ,m fU F 0 w L mw mw IHA Patented Dec. 2`6, 17933 'y UNITED? s'rAr Es rAENrrrlfcsff LeonV F; Urbain, Chicago,lll., assigner to H; B.Y Jones, DuQuoin, Ill.

Application `Jury 20,1931. serial No, 551,952.2y

4 'claimsA (o1. iss-15) The present invention relates to acorrespondence book containing pages', all of which are made of blottingpaper or Vother absorbent material and has to do particularly with adevice for conveniently holding letters to be signed and after asignature is afixed thereto.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a book which may beused by a stenographer or secretary to le correspondence as completedbetween sheets of blotting or absorbing paper until such correspondencecan be approvedand signed by the writer or dictator.

A second object of this invention is to provide a correspondence bookthat will blot the signature of the signer of letter automatically asthe pages of the book are turned.

A third object of this invention is to provide a correspondence bookwhich holds letters or items so as to conceal their contents from alluntil the writer is ready to sign such letters.

A fourth object of this invention is to provide a correspondence bookwhich may hold addressed envelopes with the letters to which they belongand which will assure that the envelopes will remain with such letters.

A further object of this invention is to provide a correspondence bookwhich may be manufactured in a plurality of page capacities from whichthe user may select a capacity best suited to his volume ofcorrespondence, and `having indicia from a casual examination of whichthe user may instantly learn the volume of correspondence he is calledupon to'sign.

These objects and such other objects asmay hereinafter appear areobtained by the construction, arrangement and combination of elementsillustrated in'the accompanying drawing illustrativeof a singleembodiment of the invention, and in which:

Figure 1 shows a plan view of the improved correspondence book formingthe subject matter of the present invention; l

Figure 2 is a schematic detail of the apertures in the pages of the bookproviding indicia for the guidance of the user of the book; and

Figure 3 is a fragmentary transverse section on the line 3 3 of Figure2, showing the front cover in place upon the sheets.

Like reference characters are used throughout the drawing and in thedescription to designate the `same parts. Y

Heretofore it has been a common practice to place letters as typed by astenographer in an open top desk tray for keeping until the dictator`can approve and sign such letters. This'custom.

rcomputing the number of unused blotting sheets.

necessitatesthe transferring ofthe letters fromvk one place to anotherin a rather loose condition and is somewhat awkward and inconvenient,since the material consists of several loose sheets and looselyassociated envelopes and possibly 50. results at times in some of thesheets becoming soiled, edges torn, or corners being folded over. Manytimes the envelopes and letters become dissociated with resulting errorin mailing. The letters were always open to the view of thosel passingthe place where the letters were kept.

rThe present invention does away with all of these inconveniences.Figure l shows a book of the loose leaf type. It is not necessary tolimit the device to a book of the loose .leaf type since books of kaplurality of page capacities can be made with permanent bindingsfrom-which a user can select one approximating the volume ofv hiscorrespondence. 1 f

The pages in the book are indicated by the numeral 1. At the center ofeach page 1 is an aperture 2. The aperture may be differently positionedif desired. The pages 1 are formed of blottingor other absorbing sheets.The apertures or holes 2 through the sheets 1 are of different diametersso that` the opening in a book resembles in configurationV the shape ofan inverted cone frustum. In the preferred form the holes 2 are formedof concentric arrangement and theY holes become uniformly larger as thesheets are stacked one upon the other, the largest hole being at thetopl and the smallest at the bottom. s v

It will be lobserved in Figures 2 and 3 that` every iifth page has acolored or otherwise treated marginv or edge about the aperture 2, eachfifth sheet being distinguished from the other-'sheets by a colored edge34, 5, and 6. When the correspondence book is used, the typed sheets,letters, or other papersare placed between the blotting sheetsl, thestack of letters beginningr at the back 7 of the book and progressingupwardly, a letter to each sheet,v to the front 8 thereof. From thecolored edges 3,' 4, 5,A4 and 6, it will be possible -for the dictatorof the letters to approximate the number of letters in the book for hissignature by mentally noting the number of blotting sheets 1 above thelast inserted letter. Colored edges 3, 4," 5, and 6 assist inV rapidlyThe hole 2 in the center of each blotting sheet eliminates thepossibility of the signer overlooking any letter in the book for ifthere are any letters between any blotting sheets 1, the back 11,0

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7 of the book will not be visible through the lowermost aperture 2.

Loose leaf books of any capacity may be readily provided to meet anyneeds of the user.

Having described my invention, What I claim is new and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A correspondence book comprising a plurality of sheets of absorbentmaterial, there being an aperture in each of said sheets, Aand saidapertures in adjacent sheets being of increasing size and disposed abouta common axis to effect a ligure with sides converging downwardly Withinthe body of said sheets.

2. A correspondence book comprising a group of apertured sheets ofabsorbent material, there being a single inverted truncated coniformopening extending through said entire group and formed by alining saidsheets.

3. A correspondence book comprising a group of apertured sheets ofabsorbent material, a part of said apertures having colored edges, therebeing an aperture through said group of sheets and having acontinuouswall, all portions of which are arranged angularly to theplane of said sheets, said aperture Wall being co-formed by the edges ofthe apertures in said sheets, and the sheets having apertures Withcolored edges being distributed at selected intervals through saidgroup.

4. A correspondence book comprising a group of apertured sheets ofabsorbent material, a part of said apertures having colored edges, therebeing an aperture traversing said group of sheets and having acontinuous Wall conguring an inverted truncated cone, said aperture wallbeing co-formed by the edges of the apertures in said sheets, and thesheets having apertures with colored edges being distributed at selectedintervals through said group.

LEON F. URBAIN.

